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This is the Professional Calendar for Android. With this product you can manage the same events as the standard Android calendar, but in addition you will get a great overview over the current month. The calendar is very fast, and includes great features like overview/detail mode, searching for events and jumping to specific dates. Of course this application does not contain any advertisements.
In addition to study this description the answers to Frequently asked questions might also be useful.
The English international name of this app is "Calendar Pro". Localized names in other languages are "Svensk Kalender", "Norsk Kalender", "Suomalainen Kalenteri", "Dansk Kalender", "Calendrier français" and "Deutscher Kalender".
Brief descriptionThis is a full-featured calendar for Android mobiles and tablets, already ready for 2017 and the successive years. With this product you can manage the same events as with the standard Android calendar, but in addition you will get a great overview over the current month. The calendar is very fast, and includes great features like overview/detail mode, searching for events and jumping to specific dates. Of course this application does not contain any advertisements.
You can browse the years 2011-2036 (Android < 4.0.3: 2011-2022). Moon Phases is included for 2011-2030 (Android < 4.0.3: 2011-2022). Calendar Pro/en supports built-in holidays for Sweden, Germany, Denmark and Finland. Flag days and name-days are also included for many of these countries (see below). Note that the week's first day and number adapt to the device region.
The calendar is tested and designed for phones & tablets running Android from version 2.1 up to the latest version of Android 7, using several different brands of devices. Furthermore, it is tested with Google- and Exchange accounts.
✓ Events can be created/edited/deleted on the same accounts as the standard Android calendar, e.g. a Google calendar account
✓ Event colors (requires Google accounts and Android >= 4.0.3)
✓ Two reminders per event
✓ A lot of repetition alternatives, e.g. repeat weekly on specific weekdays
✓ Symbols showing repetition/alarm
✓ Copy/Paste events
✓ Three event text sizes
✓ Holidays for United Kingdom, Ireland, France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Finland (both Finnish and Finnish-Swedish)
✓ Flag-days for United Kingdom, Sweden, Denmark and Finland
✓ Names-days for France, Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Finland (both Finnish and Finnish-Swedish)
✓ Moon phases 2011-2030 (Android < 4.0.3: 2011-2022)
✓ Clear Inspection view of the full event with hyperlinks when appropriate
✓ Summertime/wintertime day notes
✓ Context menus to add/delete/edit event
✓ Extensive user settings
✓ Lot of Color Themes, three standard themes and 78 extra themes that can be bought as in-app purchases (Android 5.0 or later is required)
✓ Three widgets:
- The Super-Widget which shows many events, holidays, name-days, moon phases etc. day by day in a delicious layout. This widget is an in-app purchase. It requires Android 5.0 or later
- The small widget showing three next upcoming events. No holidays, name-days or similar are shown
- The big widget showing more than three events. Holidays, names-days etc. are shown, but only for the current day only
✓ Switch rapidly between different months/days by pressing icon buttons or by swiping your finger left/right over the display
✓ The home icon button takes you directly to todays date
✓ Calendar event colors can be selected per calendar account
✓ You can select which calendar accounts you want to show/sync/colorize
✓ Week numbers are built-in. Support both for EU and US week number systems
✓ Menu functions to jump to selected date or week number.
✓ Powerful search function
✓ You can double-click to toggle between overview/details of the month
✓ Reminder supported with alerts using the standard calendar function
✓ Both portrait and landscape mode are supported
In English mode the product will have an international icon. In Android Market only one icon and one version of screen shots can be displayed.
Known drawbacks and limitations:
1. If the device calendar data is becoming "out of sync", this can be corrected with the menu function for re-sync.
2. On very small displays (e.g. QVGA-240x320, as on Sony Ericsson X10 mini pro) the text font is readable but a bit fuzzy. The text size is primary intended for medium/large displays.
3. On Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1 we have noticed that the search function is unable to search within event titles and descriptions, searching is only performed for namesdays and holidays. It seems like the built-in calendar function on these devices does not support searching for events. Possibly this restriction might appear also on other Samsung devices.
4. It seems like there is a restriction when using account types of type "Active Sync" that prevents searching successfully for words contains national characters (e.g. å/ä/ö). The result is that our application does not return any search hits for such words. The error is probably caused by Googles active sync functionality, since performing the same search on standard Google calendar accounts works well.
5. Invitations are not managed by our application. It is currently not aware of the invitation state, e.g. if you have accepted or declined an invitation, and you cannot answer an invitation using our application.
6. Syncing with Google accounts older than ~6-12 months does not work. This seems to be a limitation (for performance reasons) in the built-in Android functions used for syncing with Google calendar. This is unfortunately out of our control: it is a design decision made by Google. Previously it was possible to use ActiveSync with Google calendar (m.google.com) but Google have removed that possibility for standard Google personal accounts. Note that repeating events (e.g. birthdays from the contact book) seem to be synchronized also for very old events.
7. We do not support manual synchronization using a "sync button". Instead we recommend automatic synchronization being activated on your device, which is the basic idea of an Android device: The calendar account should be synchronized in the background to have the data constantly up-to-date. If you want to synchronize manually, instead turn on/off automatic synchronization, or press the sync/update button using your standard calendar. That will update data also within our application. A third way is to use a "local calendar account" (often called "My calendar" or "PC sync"). Such account is not syncing at all, just storing your events locally, until you use a third-party program (e.g. Kies from Samsung) to sync your device with a PC using USB/Bluetooth.
UK Support
When executed with UK regional settings the calendar is named UK Calendar to reflect the default built-in UK holidays and flag days. The application icon also converts into an UK icon for devices set to the UK region.
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That sounds interesting newb but why the fuss about the router's time? Just curious...
Side note... wonder if that guest account can access the news servers...
That sounds interesting newb but why the fuss about the router's time? Just curious...
Side note... wonder if that guest account can access the news servers...
Well the fact that the modem logs weren't properly timestamped did bother me I always had to do some math to determine what time an event occurred, especially when I wanted to prove to a Telkom technician that my ADSL line was faulty.
I posted the solution here so that anyone who might be experiencing the same problem knows how to fix it, but yeah...it's just a cosmetic change, no new functionality is gained.
Aah... cool, always good to share
This actually got me thinking. Had I not used the Telkom guest account credentials, but rather used my local only account, I could gain more functionality out of my ADSL router.
For example, instead of setting up dynamic DNS in the script on the Linksys, one could do it on the ADSL router. Also, instead of trying to set up a VPN or expose a PC to the internet via the script, one could also get this going using the ADSL router.
So having the ADSL router in half bridged mode could prove more useful than just making sure that it gets the correct time from SNTP servers.
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In connection with the 626 script adjustment:
The addition to the firewall script
should be:Code:/tmp/setdr 0 `cat def.rt`
I seem to remember JacquesR having a problem where only the local routes would work after a reboot. I think this is the reason.Code:/tmp/setdr 0 `cat /tmp/def.rt`
I have an uncapped account which is throttled from 8am to 8pm weekdays, but otherwise achieves full speeds. I've implemented a script that switches to a regular TI account as the default route during weekdays, but also ensures that no (Astraweb) news or p2p traffic goes over this TI connection. If I cap the TI account I think I will also implement an amended script to use local/int splitting with a prepaid account during weekdays - that way I could also use the SAIX news server. Might just be the best of all possible worlds, well, at least until we get decent broadband in SA at a decent price.
If anyone is interested, I have my Linksys WRT54GL with DD-WRT v23sp2 up for sale. Will flash whatever version of DD-WRT you want on it. Ad is in the classifieds section.
Can one of you using 12d of Gatecrasher's script help with a little diagnostic exercise, please? I keep getting a "connection reset by peer" error when trying to load www.eatout.co.za - but the site is fine (loads with no problems from my phone). Does it load for you?
My current local isp is Telkom, with Afrihost for int. (have also tried loading it with Webafrica int. and Axxess local, with no success).
Any ideas as to why this is happening, or how to fix?
Mine just loads & loads & loads......
@JacquesR, I can't access that website, either.
I've noticed a few sites I visit not loading. To fix it (temporarily) I ping the site, get the ip address and add the route to the international account ( route add -host www.xxx.yyy.zzz ppp0 ) and then Bingo! it works.
So it seems that some non-local addresses are being added to the local routes list. Either that, or the list is not being adaquately updated. Whichever... it's a bit disappointing.
If it becomes a persistent problem, you can replace
withCode:wget "http://developers.locality.co.za/routes.txt" -O /tmp/routes.txt
in the start-up script.Code:wget "http://ip.ludost.net/cgi/process?country=1&country_list=za&format_template=prefix&format_name=&format_target=&format_default=" -O /tmp/routes.txt
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Apologies for that! I can see this becoming a problem, as Maxmind updates only occur at the beginning of the month and new local IP blocks are being assigned all the time. I can apply 'patches' as I've said before, any corrections can be sent via the contact page on the site, though an automated procedure would be better.
What I'll do is work on combining routes from the IS BGP, and then slim them down as before. I'll distribute multiple versions of the database, and release the combined database at the existing address, so as not to interrupt existing script updates.
I'll report back once I'm done.
Thanks swazz & GC for the feedback and advice, and Locality for updating the routes - all works fine now.
I'm not sure whether this has something to do with the script or my account, but all of the suddent I'm getting 481 Access Denied via @wadsl.local when trying to access news.saix.net.
One thing that I have noticed is that my ppp2 is now connecting to 41.144.7.xx address where it used to connect to a 165.xx.xx.xx address.
Tracert news.saix.net
Tracing route to news.saix.net [126.96.36.199]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms xxxxxxxxxxx [192.xxx.xxx.xxx]
2 26 ms 25 ms 25 ms dsl-146-152-01.telkomadsl.co.za [184.108.40.206]
3 45 ms 49 ms 43 ms wblv-ip-essr-2-atm-2-0-0-2.telkom-ipnet.co.za [1
4 * * * Request timed out.
5 * * * Request timed out.
Should I take this up with WebAfrica?


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The initial mass function of nearby galaxies
The initial mass function (IMF) is an empirical function that describes the mass distribution of stars that form in one region at one time. Many astrophysical models are based on the assumption that the IMF is 'universal': that it does not change form in time or in different regions of the Universe. This study aims to investigate the effects on a non-universal IMF and place constraints on its form, while assuming a star formation history. This will be done by analysing Hubble Space Telescope data of resolved stellar populations in nearby galaxies and statistically comparing observations to simulations.
In general any astrophysical model that relies on the evolution of stellar populations will be based on the current assumption of a universal IMF. However, recent observational results suggest that the IMF may not be universal; the IMF may have a different form in different galaxies. If it is shown that the IMF is not universal then it will have an impact on any astrophysical model that assumes a universal IMF. Not only does the form of the IMF impact models based on the evolution of stellar populations, it also plays an important role in star formation models; as any accurate model of star formation has to explain and reproduce the observed IMF.


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Robert R. Barnes is a partner in our San Diego office, where his practice focuses on debtor-creditor issues, with an emphasis on bankruptcy and real estate-related workouts and foreclosures, and commercial-finance, with an emphasis on UCC and structured-finance issues. He is known for combining a comprehensive knowledge of the law with a practical, results-oriented approach. Bob has represented lenders and borrowers in a wide variety of structured-finance transactions and commercial transactions involving private-equity interests and transportation assets as collateral. In insolvency contexts, he has also represented purchasers and secured creditors in hotel, apartment building, shopping center, industrial park, senior-housing, and other real-estate based workouts, foreclosures, receiverships, and reorganizations, including confirmation of several creditor plans.
As a debtor's lawyer, Bob has counseled clients whose businesses include biotechnology, rail-car leasing, heavy-equipment manufacturing, and higher education, in addition to real property owners and developers. He also represents trustees and creditors' committees, including cases involving casinos, real estate developers, and real estate lenders. In addition, a significant portion of his practice consists of advising lenders and borrowers at the front end of a transaction regarding bankruptcy and insolvency risks (and opportunities).
He is a regular author and lecturer on bankruptcy, commercial, and foreclosure matters. Recent panels include Structuring Special Purpose Entities to Achieve Bankruptcy Remoteness: Latest Developments (Avoiding Substantive Consolidation and Achieving True Sale With SPEs), "Strategies for Acquiring Distressed Properties" for the Higher Education Real Estate Lawyers Seventh Annual Conference, and "Today's Wave of Real Estate Workouts" for the Real Property Section of the Los Angeles County Bar Association. He has also been quoted on bankruptcy issues in various media, including The San Francisco Chronicle, Reuters, The San Diego Union-Tribune, and Bankruptcy 360.
Bob received his B.A. from the University of Chicago (with general and special honors in economics) in 1982 and his J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1985.
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Saturday May 20th, 2017 Morning Sessions - 9am-12pm
Session: "And now what? Archaeology as resistance"
Session Organizer:
Yannis Hamilakis ,Joukowsky Institute of Archaeology, Brown University
And now what? This is the anxious question that torments many of us, based in North America, in the present social and political moment, the moment of Trumpism. While as citizens and activists we can mobilise on various fronts, our engagement with materiality and temporality as archaeologists offers us a different perspective, perhaps an important advantage that can prove both intellectually and political fruitful. For a start, we may wish to emphasize duration and continuities as well as ruptures, the historicity of the present moment; stress in other words that current developments bring into sharp relief the long term structural inequalities, the class divides, the colonial present which has never left us, racism, as well the latent nationalism often hiding under "patriotism", and one which for far too long, archaeologists and other scholars considered as too exotic to be of relevance to North American societies. We may also wish to subject current public and political discourse to scrutiny, foregrounding historical moments and contexts from the past, both the recent as well as the more "distant" one, occasions that belie statements on matters such as migrants and refugees, borders and border walls, human interactions with landscapes, the climatic impact, or the enclosure and destruction of the commons. Further, as specialists on materiality and on things we can produce a forensic and thus highly affective analysis of the material, sensorial and bodily effects of contemporary policies, statements and rhetorical pronouncements. We can dissect and thus demystify the material and sensorial assemblage that produces illegality at borders and checkpoints, that engenders a deportation regime, that shutters and fractures lives, families, and communities. We can disassemble the material apparatus of exclusion and deprivation, and engender the material and sensorial force, the ordinary affects of daily, deeply felt experiences, beyond and against the carefully choreographed and staged spectacles of power. More positively and hopefully, as archaeologists we can provide countless examples where powerful regimes had failed, often spectacularly and monumentally, we can point to the cracks in carefully constructed edifices, we can outline strategies of resilience and resistance. Archaeology can and should provide important lessons in the current climate. We invite archaeologists, archaeologically and materially minded anthropologists, other scholars from all backgrounds to think through collectively the above issues, and to work out together a fluid and flexible strategy for the years to come.
Individual papers:
"Realists of a larger reality": human pasts and the archaeological imagination
Felipe Rojas (Brown University)
Archaeology, at least etymologically, is rooted in the past and in coherent discourse. Yet much discourse, in today's academic and political environment, feels like dogma or noise: rallying cries for posthumanist perspectives and manifestos for object-oriented approaches conveniently allow scholars to shift archaeology's focus (from the past to the present, from the human to the thing), rather than critically examining the challenges and value of knowing about human pasts. This paper argues that one of the aims of archaeologists today should be to probe how people in other times have explored and explained their own pasts, even when they differ radically from the strategies favored by archaeologists. The aim is not to satisfy a perverse sense of nostalgia, nor much less to adopt those strategies in our own investigations, but rather to remain aware of the range of what has been possible. In this paper, I marshal theories associated with contemporary Amazonian anthropologists and explore their resonances and dissonances with evidence from ancient Anatolia. Ultimately, this paper is an invitation to examine other ontologies and temporalities and to imagine archaeologists as what the science-fiction writer Ursula K. LeGuinn has called "realists of a larger reality."
Landscape archaeology in the Anthropocene: a call for political ecology as field practice.
Ömür Harmanşah, University of Illinois at Chicago
The current academic debates and public anxieties on climate change and environmental crisis on the global scale and the onset of the proposed new geological epoch of the Anthropocene present brand new challenges to those of us working in the humanities and social sciences. Only within the last decade or so, the implications of our planetary predicament has become clear, and calls have been made by scholars such as Dipesh Chakrabarty, Catherine Malabou, and Daniel Smail, for a complete rethinking of the way historians make sense of the past. A new form of history is necessary since the planetary crisis introduced an entirely new sense of time, requiring us to consider the previously incompatible temporalities (geological time, deep time, historical time, human time, etc) to be reconciled and the role of the human as a geological or a biological agent taking part in the ecological processes to be reconsidered. The collapse of the humanist distinctions between prehistory and history, natural history and political history, and the dissatisfaction with the emphasis on the anthropocentric concerns such as freedom and technological progress are important aspects of our extraordinary moment. The debate around the Anthropocene is then an intensely political and cultural debate, especially involving the politics of sciences embroiled with scenarios of environmental crisis, the governance of the planet, and the role of late capitalism in the present predicament. Landscape archaeologists have been well equipped to understand deep time in spatially well contextualized ways, especially through their collaborations with paleo-environmental sciences. Through ecologically sensitive perspectives armed with techniques of survey fieldwork and geomorphology, they have largely engaged with the landscapes of the Holocene, where human-environment relationships are usually characterized as harmonious and interdependent. These are considered nostalgic landscapes of global human heritage that carry narratives of humanity since the beginning of settled life. Focusing their attention to the study of pristine or better-preserved landscapes, survey archaeologists have rarely engaged with landscapes of the Anthropocene (with the exception of salvage archaeology), i.e. those ruined and contaminated landscapes of industrial modernity, sites of mining and extreme extraction, and late capitalism's disposable landscapes. These landscapes are at the same time intensely political ecologies where human rights violations, environmental injustice, and expulsions of local communities take place. In this paper, I call for an alternative form of landscape fieldwork: political ecology as field practice that requires an intimate political engagement with the defense of place at contexts of late capitalist development, and one that develops a certain regime of care for local communities when their livelihood, their land, their resources, and their heritage are threatened.
From Plato to NATO: 2,500 Years of Democracy and The End of History
Despina Lalaki, NYU
On the occasion of his recent visit to Greece, President Barack Obama's remarks – protracted echoes of familiar pronouncements about the end of history and ideological evolution, endorsements of laissez-faire economics and the individual freedom that our Western democracies purportedly serve – not unexpectedly were uttered against a background of Doric columns and numerous invocations to the ancients. Appropriately if rather predictably, President Obama drew from history and stressed the strong connections between his country and his host, emphasizing the political culture shared between Greece and the United States. What caught my attention, however, was the American President's explicit reference to President Truman, whom he briefly quoted from his famous 1947 speech in the Congress, a speech that encapsulated the post-war US foreign policy of containment and became known as the Truman Doctrine.
Despite the new Republican president-elect's statements during the campaign, Obama's trip to Greece, more than anything else, was meant to affirm the U.S. commitment to transatlantic ties and NATO. The insistence that the message would be delivered against the historic backdrop of ancient Greece – allegedly it was the President himself who resolved to visit Greece on his final state tour – is the topic of this brief paper. Here I wish to unpack and further problematize the symbolisms employed to illustrate and operationalize the relationship between the two countries following the end of the Second World War, and raise a few questions regarding the uses of cultural heritage and cultural representations as well as the relationship between history and political imagination.
Bodies at Contact Zones: Museum Guards, Customs and Immigration Agents, and the Nation
Katina Lillios, University of Iowa
In a 2013 paper in Museum Anthropology, I explored, using archival evidence, how the everyday practices of the first guards to work at the Museu Etnológico Português, in Lisbon, Portugal, were instrumental in creating new understandings of the Portuguese nation. As intermediaries between the public, the museum's collections, and the museum staff, the museum guards occupied a contact zone, to use the term coined by Mary Louise Pratt, or "a social space where cultures meet, clash, and grapple with each other, often in contexts of highly asymmetrical relations of power." In the early years of the museum's history (1893-1929), the guards functioned primarily as agents for marking social boundaries, and only secondarily, as individuals charged with protecting the physical security of the museum's collections. In this exploratory paper, I compare the practices of these guards with the role of US immigration and customs enforcement in maintaining national boundaries in a (fragile) transnational world, with attention to their increasing powers in the post-Trump era. I consider the intellectual possibilities and social justice potentials for an archaeology or ethnography of US border maintenance
From Trump to trigger warnings: teaching an engaged archaeology in times of trouble
Andrew Dufton, Brown University
As we ask ourselves 'and now what?' the opportunities presented by archaeology — its material and temporal foci, its long and troubled history of political influence — make the discipline a natural fit for activism. Yet for responses to the current regime to be truly effective this resistance must touch not only upon our individual scholarship or institutional reactions, but also the ways in which we teach archaeology to our students. Expounding on the question posed by the session, we might ask and now what in the classroom? What courses should be offered to encourage an informed opposition to cuts to heritage and the humanities? How do we impart the skills needed to help speak out against current injustice? And how can we restructure existing curricula to encourage our students to take a more activist approach to the material world?
This paper interrogates how we as a community can adjust our pedagogical practices to create a new generation of engaged, citizen archaeologists. Content, delivery, and methods of assessment will each be explored, drawing on both classroom examples and the many potentials — and pitfalls — of a growing ecosystem of online education. The past will continue to be invoked as a means to justify current systems of inequality and oppression, and those presenting a knowledgeable, contradictory view may increasingly find themselves the direct targets of ideological suppression or control. This paper and the resulting discussion will begin a much needed dialogue on how we can best respond to the troubles of the contemporary political climate by making changes to the way we teach and communicate archaeology as a discipline.


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Finite size effects in thermodynamics: negative compressibility and global instability in two-phase systems
LTL Quantum Physics Seminar (Nanotalo). Speaker: Dr. Igor Todoshchenko (Aalto University, Finland).
08.02.2018 / 13:15 - 14:00
Nanotalo, 161, Puumiehenkuja 2, 02150, Espoo, Otaniemi, FI 60° 11.208 N 24° 49.464 E
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We have for the first time measured directly the equilibrium melting pressure of helium-4 as a function of the crystal size. The negative compressibility of the liquid with an inclusion of solid seed has been generally predicted theoretically and demonstrated experimentally with helium-4 crystal superfluid system at 0.1 K. This two-phase system has been shown to be stable if the crystal size is large enough, which has been proven by the experiment. Crystal seeds that are too small spontaneously either melt completely or grow to a large enough size.


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Tuesday, July 4, 2017
Summer Travels 2017
End of May/early June, we traveled to Germany for Agnes' parents Golden wedding anniversary.
And in mid-June, we spent a wonderful week rock climbing in South Dakota.
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Grand Canyon: Kanab Creek May 2016
Greetings! We just returned from a four night backpack in Grand Canyon National Park. Our trip report is on our hiking website:
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Buffalo River, Arkansas, April 2016
Where has Horseshoe Canyon Ranch been in our lives all these years? As Saxon expats, we missed the rock climbing in sandstone - the sandstone layer in Missouri is pitifully thin, and no good climbing exists in the vicinity of our town. We had heard about climbing down in Arkansas, but never really checked it out - until now. We had bought two new guide books, and after having pitched tent at Steele Creek Campground, we arrived at Horseshoe Canyon Ranch at noon on Thursday, checked in, signed our waiver and received our wristbands, and headed for the rock area with the largest number of medium difficulty routes, the Cliffs of Insanity.
And they were insane. AMAZING! Solid rock, huge jugs as handholds - plates and knobs you would not dare to hold on back home because they might break off are iron hard and you can hang from them without fear. The protection of the sports climbing routes is excellent; seven bolts for 60 feet of route - a far cry from the sparse rings in Saxon Switzerland. We found the difficulty rating to be rather forgiving, compared to other areas. Had a great afternoon, climbed seven routes in sunny 70 degree weather and only saw one other party.
Since it was just the two of us, we did not have anybody to take actual climbing pictures.
On Friday, we drove to Kyle's Landing (the gravel road about which we had read so many warnings online turned out to be easily passable for our car) and started the hike up Indian Creek. It was a chilly overcast morning, no sun, but the canyon was beautiful, with many flowers, pools and lots of waterfalls. We passed Copperhead Falls
and Tunnel Cave Falls where the creek emerges out of a cave.
Until this point, the hike was easy, following faint tracks along the creek. To continue past Tunnel Cave, however, one has to climb up a cliff, which is a bit challenging since it is very wet. Fortunately there are several fixed ropes that can be used as aides. After navigating this ascent and climbing through a hole in the cliff wall, we continued our hike up stream to the Eye of the Needle and then past it, until the upper end of the canyon. We walked until we found a trail that lead us back to the Buffalo River Trail and Kyle's Landing.
The night to Saturday was colder still and chilly even in our down sleeping bags inside the tent; we had to scrape the ice off the car. We drove to Erbie on the other side of the river and hiked Cecil Cove trail. After 1.5 mile, we took a detour to explore Thunder Canyon, a beautiful little slot canyon. Following the canyon past pools and little waterfalls along slippery wet rock ledges lead us to 71ft tall Thunder Canyon Fall that falls into a 14 ft deep pool.
On the way back, it happened. Did I mention slippery rock?
I am not in the picture - because these are my very wet clothes. Everything happened quickly. The pool was deep and the water very cold. Unfortunately I was the one carrying the camera.Thankfully, the SD card with the pictures was salvageable; the camera's fate is yet undetermined, it is currently drying out in a bag of rice.
Undeterred, we forged on - after a half hour break in the sun to dry my pants. We closed the loop via Goat Bluff Trail with beautiful views of the Buffalo River.
On Sunday morning, we packed up and drove to HCR for more climbing. We were hesitant to check out the popular North Forty area because of the crowds, but found that it was no problem: with such an abundance of routes, you can simply move a few yards over to the next one if people are on the one you wanted to climb. The routes are a bit shorter here, most of the ones we did were only 40 to 50 ft. We climbed greedily, like a starving person shoveling food - we wanted to get as many routes as possible before it was time to leave and did not take time for food breaks. Five hours and 13 routes later we were ready to go home... with firm plans to come back very soon.
20+ miles of hiking, 20 climbing routes, all in four days including travel - a perfect trip! See you album for more pictures.
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Friday, May 29, 2015
Utah Trip 2015
We spent five days backpacking in Utah's San Rafael Swell. First, we hiked a loop through the Little Grand Canyon of the San Rafael River, up Virgin Springs Canyon to Sid's Mountain, camped in Saddle Horse Canyon, and returned along Salt Wash and the San Rafael. The hike offered views of two pictograph panels, an old cabin, and great sandstone canyon walls. It was very wet, and water was available not only at the big spring in Virgin Springs Canyon, but also in numerous potholes and small seasonal springs. The San Rafael River itself was extremely muddy - we had to wade through it six times - and would have been a possible water source only in dire emergency.
We spent a night camping along Mexican Mountain road and then went on a two day hike down Eardley Canyon. The canyon offered much variety: narrows, slickrock, pools. We camped at a rincon, an abandoned meander, in the shadow of a large freestanding monolith.
Although it was Memorial Day weekend, we encountered only two other parties!
Check out the album for pictures.
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Sunday, July 6, 2014
Summer Travels 2014
This summer's travels took us first to Escalante, Utah, for a week of canyoneering. Despite it being the week before Memorial Day, we had almost perfect solitude and did not encounter any other people on all but one of our hikes.
After Utah, we spent two weeks in Aspen, CO where Thomas attended the Physics Center. Because it was so early in the year and too much snow still on the ground, it was impossible to climb any high mountains.
We drove back to Rolla and had two short days before leaving for another three weeks in Germany where we got to spend time with family, see old friends, rock climb, and explore some historic cities.
More pictures are in our photo album (link on the right). I hope you are all having a good summer.
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
Summer Travels
Our photos are up! This summer we combined vacation and physics and spent four weeks in Utah and Colorado. The first week in Utah was purely for hiking and backpacking. We hit a heat wave, and 104 degree weather forced us to change our plans and hike close to water at all times... well, except for the stretch where the Escalante River went dry, that is. We made up for that by spending an entire day in the water-filled canyon of Death Hollow.
The next two weeks, Thomas attended the Aspen Center for Physics, and we used to opportunity for day hikes and rock climbing.
Finally, one week in beautiful Boulder, CO, where Thomas taught at the Boulder School for Condensed Matter and Materials Physics. The Flatirons are fabulous! Why oh why can't we have rocks like this in Rolla...
Look at our photo album for more pictures.
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Sunday, August 12, 2012
We spent ten wonderful days in the San Juan Mountains. We hiked almost every day. The highlight of our trip was the summit of Uncompahgre Peak, 14,309 ft.
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Park Seo Joon and Kim Ji Won officially confirmed to star together in new romantic drama
Park Seo Joon (She Was Pretty) and Kim Ji Won (Descendants of the Sun) have officially signed on to lead in a new series together. We have details on their characters and storyline!
The two interpretation of the show's title "Ssam my way" clearly indicates the show's encouraging and spirited narrative: "Fight My Way" and "Third-Rate My Way". The two stars play close friends who live uninspired with their own lives and wish to prove themselves in their dream careers despite whatever setbacks they encounter.
Park Seo Joon stars as Go Dong Man, a former taekwondo star who works as a temporary office worker while moonlighting as an unknown mixed martial arts fighter. Kim Ji Won stars as Choi Ae Ra, a department store information desk employee who aspires to become a television news anchor.
Ahn Jae Hong (Answer Me 1988) has also been inked a role in the series.
Park and Kim's characters see each other as nothing more than friends, but that inevitably changes. As they mature to figure out who they are as a person, they also grow more romantically fond of each other in the process.
The drama is reportedly set to air on KBS this May.
What do you think about this pairing?
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Courtney and Augusta spent their summer in Zambia working with the private contracting firm Avencion. Their primary job was to interview NGO's, non-profits and other charitable organizations to find a new project for Avencion to work on. They were also there to immerse themselves in the culture and create connections between UVa and Avencion.
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|Posted by CZsWorld on September 2, 2014 at 10:50 PM
This month we take a break from our usual schedule of horror films and theme parks to bring you a Top 5 Countdown of the most anticipated features of the upcoming Roller Coaster Tycoon: World.
What do you want to see in the new RCT? Let me know in the comments!
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{Continued from PART 27}
The long Greyhound pulled into the terminal on Howard in downtown Detroit. I normally loathed the Renaissance Center, that collection of grain silos around a Pringles can on the riverfront. But on this day when I spotted their dark forms dotted with lit windows, I wanted to kiss the lousy things. I was home.
Michael was waiting. Our reunion looked like a movie scene - we tightly embraced and kissed for about a minute. Better to buss him than General Motors' homely towers on the river.
The bus ride had been a marathon of monotony and scenery dissolving from dense urban to silent rural. I boarded at the Newark terminal, a copy of the New York Daily News under my arm with a jumbo headline, IT'S WAR, and a photo of the second jet about to strike WTC 2. Except for my bandages, I don't think I stood out. A woman who boarded with me asked me a half hour later how I got hurt. "Did you--were you in the trade towers?" she said.
the broad cloud of smoke continued its odious rise over downtown...
"No, I just fell down," I said. I hate to lie, but I just did not want to address the topic of the World Trade Center. Just as it was erased from the Manhattan skyline, I tried to purge it from my mind. When I looked out the window, however, I couldn't totally do it - the broad cloud of smoke continued its odious rise over downtown and seemed to be visible for miles after we left Newark.
I discouraged conversation. As much as possible during the fourteen and one-half hours I was riding, I tried to sit alone. I wore my portable CD player most of the time, listening to classical or pop music. I slept about one-third of the trip, read for another third, and spent the rest apathetically staring out at the scenery. For the time being, I didn't want to speak to anyone but family.
The bus made stops at three towns in Pennsylvania - Stroudsburg, Milesburg, and Du Bois - before it crossed into Ohio. The longest layover was an hour in Cleveland. I remembered how years ago people called it "The Mistake on the Lake," which I thought was mean. The city also brought to mind the Indians, Drew Carey, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. I simply sat and read an abandoned copy of the Plain Dealer, sipped orange pop, and munched a nearly stale egg salad sandwich from a vending machine while I waited.
The next to last stop was just before 9 p.m. Toledo required us to transfer to another bus. Toledo is about an hour from Detroit, and my spirit lifted a bit to know that I'd soon be there.
Michael picked me up from the terminal in his Caravan.
"You look pretty good," he said. We were traveling up I-75 toward the suburbs. "I mean, considering what you've been through--"
"No, I don't," I said. "My face is nothing but bruises."
"It'll heal, Joanie. You look great because you're back with me, and you're alive!"
"True. I'm glad to be alive."
"We'll all be back together at home."
"Right. I've got the rest of the week off from Jon himself. I think I'll just hide away."
"I've got tomorrow off, too. Let's just spend the day together, you and me. The girls will be in school. Let's go out and have lunch, maybe see a movie."
"I don't want to see any movies, or go anywhere."
"Okay, we don't have to, then. But we need to talk. I was so frightened for you when I saw the second jet hit on TV."
"I saw the first one - live and in person. It was this silvery blur that just smashed into the tower. And it all just blew up in flames and smoke."
"I kept wondering where you were when I couldn't call you, and I saw the towers fall. I felt like crying. I didn't want to lose you."
"I felt the south tower collapse. It was like being in a small earthquake. I saw the north tumble when I was by the Financial Center."
"I'd to hear all about what you went through yesterday--"
"I don't feel like talking about it anymore!"
"All right, Joanie. When you're ready, I'd like to hear about it. Everyone in the family wants to know what happened to you."
"When I'm ready, I will. That was a waking nightmare. I don't want to talk about it."
I would not be ready for more than four months. I dragged my load of WTC memories behind me into the winter and the New Year. I felt a paralyzing terror every time I tried to access them and lay them out. I wouldn't see a therapist; I hardly spoke to Pastor Nachtweg.
When we arrived at the house about 10:30, Naomi and Christa were still up. Michael had allowed them to stay up to see their Mommy and welcome her home.
They both burst with stories about how they had learned about the attacks. Naomi said my "I Heart NY" shirt was ironic. I was stunned when Naomi repeated the story of her screaming in social studies. The teacher dismissed her from class and let her go to the main office after she told him and the other students that I was in the south tower. The sympathy was intense and deep as she left. An hour later, her high school was dismissed, and buses rolled in to take the teens home.
When Michael came home, he found her in the family room sulking and staring aimlessly at MTV, which had replaced its normal programming with news reports.
Christa's teacher comforted her after she learned that the New York assault involved the Twin Towers. She told everyone I was there to help a company improve its quality. The school was dismissed at its regular time.
Her best friend, a girl named Alyssa, walked home with her. Michael told her I had called and said I was in New Jersey, with a broken nose and ribs, and a cut arm. He told me later that he cradled and rocked her as he had when she was a toddler, while she bawled with relief that I had gotten out.
Naomi gave Michael a hug and said, "I'm looking forward to Mommy coming home."
I climbed the stairs to the master bedroom, where I happily undressed and put on my own T-shirt and pajama pants. I fell into a deep, nearly dreamless sleep. I would not have nights like this again until after I told my story in the winter.
My cassette tape recorder captured my 9/11 memories from start to finish. I recorded about two hours and 45 minutes worth of recollections on three tapes.
This was how my family learned about my ordeal. We had a stereo with a dubbing feature, so I made copies of the tapes and sent them to my parents and Rocky and Nina. Aunt Ellen, who stayed on Long Island with her son and daughter-in-law through March, listened with them. Not having spoken to my brother Peter for many years, I had an attack of guilt and send copies to him as well. He wrote a terse note back: "I'm sorry this happened."
I also e-mailed photographs from September 11 to Rocky and Nina. I used our scanner and also made digital copies of some of my drawings as well, including the one I made of Rocky as we faced off in his mother's den at home in Troy. I received warm notes of thanks each time material was sent their way.
My decision to finally make a full recollection improved my state of mind. The nightmares began to decrease and vanished altogether by May. I began to see a therapist about two weeks after my night with Michael, in which I discussed the not only the memories, but the fears and health problems I had undergone. The psychologist, Dr. Patricia Fulbright, analyzed the symptoms I had experienced through the fall and winter. She told me I was suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. I had sessions with Dr. Fulbright until fall 2002.
My return to consulting also helped in my recovery. Boarding jets and sleeping in hotels became normal again. The only problem I had was occasionally jumping at large noises in office towers, but for the most part my work went smoothly. Julia and Edmond were instrumental in keeping me out of the New York City area - at least until April.
Still another reason I finally began to recover had to be proximity. My mantra of those September days -- I'm from Detroit -- was spoken for a reason. I was an outsider to the Big Apple, and could at least remove myself physically from the day-to-day horror. On top of facing 9/11 memories, I did not have to live in that scarred metropolis as they were forced to in the intervening months.
Another part of my recovery was regularly consulting newspapers, TV, and the Web for information. I tried not to let the occasional references to 9/11 or the "War on Terrorism" spook me. These types of stories persisted well into 2002, especially with the attacks' six-month, and then one-year commemorations.
In March, CBS News aired a documentary called 9/11, which two French brothers residing in the Big Apple had shot. The show started as a tale of a beginning firefighter's experiences and mutated into a chronicle of disaster. I was surprised at several aspects of this program, which I tensely viewed with Michael and videotaped.
One was that the Naudet brothers followed Engine 7 and Ladder 1, some of whose firefighters I encountered during my flight from the north tower. I recognized Firefighter Melendez and the chief to whom I had spoken in the footage. Another thing was the odd sound - PUUH! - that punctuated the video of the firefighters at their command center in the lobby, and that I had heard myself, in person. My eyes got moist when one fireman recalled that this was the sound of human bodies hitting the plaza.
My final surprise was in watching the fire personnel and civilians preparing to go through the walkway from WTC 1 to the World Financial Center. It was just a few seconds of video, but I ended up rewinding and playing it over and over. Among the civilians is a small, pale woman, whose backpack, beige jacket, and torn floral skirt are still visible through a coat of gray dust, and who has a makeshift bandage around her left forearm. There are dried blood and bruises on her face. She holds the hand of another woman with short gray hair. This woman is myself.
I never noticed the cameraman while I was trying to escape, but it was undeniably a record of myself. There. In the World Trade Center. I felt strange being part of the visual record of the WTC's demise, but accepted it by this time, as I was becoming accustomed to my memories and status as a 9/11 survivor. Watching materials from the date is difficult for me to this day, and in early to mid-2002 I could take it only in small doses without wanting to cry uncontrollably.
As I permitted myself to peruse mass media of the time, I began to learn particulars about the attacks, such as their timeline, victims, and the terrorists' modus operandi. Becoming aware of the larger story left me chilled. Again, just as I told my mother and Rocky, the decisions I made during my evacuation determined my survival.
United Airlines Flight 175's impact area was between floors 78 and 84 of the south tower. The fact that North East Investments' was on the 84th floor shook me up. Jeremy the Linebacker, Brian Smiley, and Maya the cell phone thrower died when they decided it was safer to stay inside. Maya was a surprise, as I remember her emphatically saying she wanted to get out just before I fled. I also had been briefly at the 78th floor sky lobby before getting spooked and returning to the stairwell. Less than 10 minutes later, the area was destroyed. Rocky was seriously injured and barely escaped alive.
When I ended up in the north tower lobby, I had to decide whether to stay there or go back into the mall. Aunt Ellen's frantic call to me saved my life again, because I had thought of entering the concourse. Who knows if I would have survived down there a few minutes later when the south tower crashed.
The oddest diversion I found, and the one that I think helped me continue to heal, was viewing the excavation of Ground Zero. In contrast to the footage of terror, I could sit and watch this thing for hours.
On a nocturnal trip into cyberspace in March, I stumbled by accident onto a compendium of "Web cams." One of them was through MSNBC, the 24-hour news network. It was labeled "Ground Zero Live."
Even with tulips in the front yard and a million birds in the trees, I had to accept that ghosts of September were not totally silenced. Clicking on the link for the streaming video, I was given a miniature movie of what looked more like a construction site. I could see tall, vertical concrete walls (part of the WTC's old "bathtub" sub-basements) and a wrecked parking structure. Often there were just men and construction vehicles fiddling around with dirt and debris. But this peculiar thing, this valley of the dead, began to grow on me.
In the night and in rare days at the office, when I was not on the road, I became fascinated with these men and machines and their patterns. They were always there, no matter the hour, laboring and hunting and excavating.
In one scene I saw often in April, there were two narrow rows of white concrete forms. Figures in navy blue, orange, and yellow stood between them as the earthmovers executed their duties.
First, blaze orange cranes would drive up to the rubble and dump scoops of it on a level area. Second, a couple of loaders would take over, smoothing over the wreckage numerous times. Third, the public safety personnel would rake through the dirt and other materials by hand, searching for human remains and evidence, because it was still considered a crime scene. I could see their rakes cutting into the dirt, their shoulders bobbing, their grim ritual under both sun and moon.
The Associated Press indicated that they were on the site of 6 World Trade Center by then, which had been the squat, smoky-windowed U.S. Customs House by the north tower.
One Saturday early in April, I saw something that looked like a landing field for UFOs - there were two squares of lights in the higher ground near the "bathtub," casting an eerie glow. This was the "Tribute in Light," two towers of pure illumination installed in the northwest section of Ground Zero by several Big Apple artists as a memorial six months after 9/11. The lights stayed up until April 13.
a single steel beam ... had been left standing. it became a repository of the potent emotions and memories of that timeframe
I took odd comfort in watching this cleanup, my eyes fixed upon the dinky streaming video window for 10 to 15 minutes at a time. I was mesmerized by the rhythms of the cranes and loaders, doing their choreographed dances like a talented elephant herd. Each scoop of the WTC fragments processed meant moving this sordid event ever deeper into history.
When the camera shot was wider, you could also see a huge reddish orange ramp opposite the old WTC parking structure's ribs. Gravel trucks laden with remains traveled out of the bathtub upon it. Eventually the materials would either be buried in the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island or end up recycled in other steel products. Nelson and David indirectly would live on.
A single steel beam from 2 World Trade Center had been left standing. It became a repository of the potent emotions and memories of that timeframe. It was taped up with bouquets and photographs, and scrawled with graffiti. It carried in red paint the following legend: "CIVS, 2,427; PAPD, 37." It was part of the total 2,801 WTC death toll, the regular folk and officers of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. The PA and contractors had decided that this beam would be the very last piece of debris to leave Ground Zero, out of the valley where Rocky and I had fled.
I looked at the beam and imagined that I had felt its vibes, along with the rest of the tower, just like when I pressed myself to WTC 1's beveled corner on an Indian summer day in October 1999.
By the end of May 2002, the recovery operation officially concluded. The large beam was transported up a big orange ramp, covered with a flag and wreath. An empty stretcher and a bagpipe group were part of this cortege. In July, the debris processing ended at Fresh Kills with another ceremony presided over by the mayor. Ground Zero was no more physically, but I know it still burns on in many people's minds to this day. Because I was there, it most certainly does in mine.
By June, I quit my job at JTS when another offer came along - amazingly, it may seem - from the South Oakland Sentinel. Oliver Brandt had been forced out a couple years after I had left, after a reporter friend of mine, Jaime Peterman, had confronted him with his sordid secret life of frequenting prostitutes down in a ratty area on Woodward Avenue. I became entertainment editor at the paper once again, and I am still there, content with my decision.
On a Wednesday in September 2002, I took a day off from the Sentinel to make an appearance before Naomi's current events class. I brought along overhead transparencies I had made of my photos and illustrations from 9/11.
"My name is Joanetta Bailey," I told the class, "and I'm the mother of Naomi, here in the third row." Teens' heads nodded in acknowledgement to my daughter. "I'm here because today is the first anniversary of the attacks on the United States, and I am a survivor of the World Trade Center. I'm going to share my story with you."
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Joe Perry
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Senior Vice President
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401 W. Ontario St., Suite 301
Chicago, IL 60654
Financing Types: Debt Placement, Equity Arrangement, Tax Credits
Speciality: Non-Recourse Bridge & Permanent Loans with Cash Out, SBA 504 or 7(a) Loans
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A long-time Chicago-area resident, Joe has 29 years of experience in commercial real estate development, financing, operations and investment. Joe's father launched the development, consulting and commercial brokerage firm, Perry Commercial, in 1957. Joe purchased and took over leadership of the company in 2000. Through it and other affiliates and partnerships, he has developed, financed and operated over $180 million in commercial real estate projects; with a strong focus on multifamily and healthcare properties. During his long career, Joe has provided clients with expertise in development, all types of financing, the disposition of existing properties, land acquisition, and build-to-suit and leaseback of new facilities.
In addition to arranging financing for clients nationwide, Perry uses his extensive market knowledge and experience to identify investment and development opportunities for both Conlon & Co and its real estate brokerage Conlon Commercial, and is a partner in various entrepreneurial ventures. As the owner of commercial real estate financing advisory and development company, Perry Group, Ltd., he also owns and operates several independent senior living facilities throughout Illinois.
Joe attended Eastern Illinois University and the University of Colorado at Boulder. He is the author of numerous articles and active within Chicago's Real Estate Investment Association.


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Ever fancied yourself as an Animator? First Light has teamed up with Canterbury Anifest to offer young people the chance to get an insight into the world of animation.
Canterbury Anifest is the South East's animation festival. Now in its fifth year, the festival will once again be held in Augustine House, Canterbury, Kent. This year the line-up of speakers and events will be bigger and more exciting than ever, and the festival will take place over three days, from Friday 30th September until Sunday 2nd October 2011.
Anifest are giving away a pair of backstage passes* to this year's festival, where the winner will be given the fantastic opportunity to interview a whole host of industry experts. Any interviews will then be displayed on the First Light website for all to see!
In addition to this fantastic prize, two lucky runners up will be given a pair of festival passes*, so that they can spend the weekend mingling with other festival-goers and gaining valuable tips for their own films!
The competition is open to young people aged 14-25
To enter
Simply answer the question –
'How many Coraline keys will Anifest be hiding around Canterbury in the build up to their exclusive Coraline talk?' (It would be cheating to tell you the answer can be found on the Anifest website, so we're not going to ;))
Log into The Light Lounge via our homepage to download the entry form which you can then send to email@example.com. Entries must be received by 15th August at 5pm.
The 2011 Line Up includes:
Coraline – Screening of the recent hit animation with a creative marketing talk and presentation from LAIKA, the studio who created the film.
Creature Comforts – Meet the head of model making and see the models from Aardman Animations' popular Creature Comforts TV show with a behind-the-scenes talk.
Harry Potter – Find out how the dragons and other computer effects were created for the Harry Potter films.
Phill Jupitus – An evening of Phill screening his favourite animations with laughs thrown in.
British & International Short Films – Award winning short animations from home & abroad.
For more information on Canterbury Anifest, or to buy tickets to the festival, click here
Good Luck!
*Please note that winners must be able to make their own way to the festival, accompanied by a parent or guardian if necessary, and that First Light and Anifest will not be able to cover travel expenses.


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Soca legends Machel Montano and Austin "Super Blue" Lyons have been crowned Road March Monarchs 2018.
Machel and Super Blue 2018 collaboration Soca Kingdom was played a total of 336 times at official Carnival judging points across T&T- more then twice as much as nearest competitor Neil "Iwer" George.
Iwer George's Savannah was played a total of 140 times while Patrice Roberts' Sweet For Days came in third with 112 plays. The competition was, however, the closest it has been in years when winners succeeded by much larger margins.
It also created history for Lyons, as he is now tied with legendary calypsonian Lord Kitchener (Aldwin Roberts), who won the competition a record 10 times before he died in 2000.
Lyons' last win came in 2013 with Fantastic Friday, when he briefly put a damper on Montano's recent dominance in the competition. Lyons tied with George in 2000 and won the title in 1995 and back to back titles between 1991 and 1993. His other titles came in 1980, 1981 and 1983, while his sobriquet was still "Blue Boy.
Montano can still overtake both veterans, as this year's victory took his tally to nine. He won the competition three years in a row between 2014 and 2016 and also in 2011 and 2012. In 2006, he won the title with Patrice Roberts for their collaboration Band of the Year and then by himself the following year with Jumbie. Montano's first title came in 1997 with Big Truck.
Multi-Platinum Grammy Award Winning Music Artist Guyanese Connection.
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Rihanna was born Robyn Rihanna Fenty on February 20, 1988 to a Barbadian/Irish father (Ronald Fenty) and a Guyanese mother (Monica Braithwaite) in the Parish of St. Michael, Barbados.
Rihanna has sold over 25 million albums, over 100 million digital singles worldwide and has had number-one singles in 35 countries.
She is the highest-selling digital artist in US history, sold over 47,571,000 singles as of 2012. She has achieved eleven number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the youngest solo artist to achieve that feat. Rihanna has sold 7.3 million albums in the United States.
Rihanna won 8 Grammy Awards, 12 Billboard Music Awards, 12 American Music Awards, 2 BRIT Awards, 8 People's Choice Awards, 5 BET Awards, 3 BET Hip Hop Awards and 4 Soul Train Awards.
She's become the youngest solo artist to score 14 no. 1 singles on the billboard hot 100—the fastest to do so—she's sold more than 54 million albums and 210 million tracks worldwide.
With over 81 million Facebook fans, 82 million Twitter & 57 million Instagram followers, Rihanna is putting her influence to good use via philanthropic efforts. Chief among these is her own Clara Lionel Foundation. Established in 2012 and named after Rihanna's beloved grandparents Clara & Lionel Braithwaite, the foundation works to improve the quality of life for communities globally in the areas of health, education, arts & culture.
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Damian "Junior Gong" Marley wins the 2018 Grammy for Best Reggae Album.
Junior Gong won the prestigious award for his album "Stony Hill" at the 60th Grammy Awards ceremony held at the Madison Square Gardens in New York City on January 28, 2018. It was his third Grammy for Best Reggae Album.
Other nominees in the category for Best Reggae Album were Chronology by Chronixx, Avakedabra by Morgan Heritage, Lost in Paradise by Common Kings and Wash House Ting by J Boog.
Natural Black (born Mortimer Softley) is a reggae singer from Georgetown Guyana.
He moved to Jamaica to pursue his dream of being a Reggae Singer, after a period of service in the army.
He has had several hits in Jamaica, including "Far From Reality" and "Nice it Nice.
As a widely acclaimed artiste he has a large Guyanese fan base as well as Caribbean, European and Latin America.
His style and personality has made him a favorite among some of the top record producers and show promoters in Jamaica, and throughout the Caribbean. As a result, he has toured extensively and has performed to sold out audiences in Switzerland, Austria, France, Italy, Slovenia, USA, Guyana and through out the Caribbean . He has also performed on most of the major Reggae shows and festivals such as Sting, Reggae Sumfest, Rebel Salute, East Fest, Irie Jamborie and others.
Some of his big tunes are Far from reality, nice it nice, Babylon ah burn, revolution, never leave you lonely, cry cry smile, tell me why, Why can't we, treat her like a lady and many more.
Nicki Minaj Most Globally Visible Female Rapper Of All Time, Speaks About Her Trinidadian and Island Culture.
I love island culture. I love being an island girl. I wear that so proudly. I love being able to say, I'm not American, I'm Trini. I think it gives me so much more depth. I'm able to connect with people who aren't just Americans, but so many West Indian people no matter where they come from can identify with me just off the strength that they know we have something in common.
Reggae music has inspired me so much. When I left Trinidad, I was young, so I didn't grow up on calypso per se. But I love all the big Trini acts. Machel Montano, Bunji Garlin, and Fay-Ann—they do such a great job representing my country. But when I came to New York, reggae was a big part of life in New York. That was the time when—and I still think Beenie Man is the king of dancehall—you couldn't go anywhere without hearing Beenie Man a million times. And Buju Banton. These amazing reggae artists influenced me more than I think people realize. It's always there on the album—I always at one point on an album have to represent for my island people.
Nicki Minaj (born Onika Tanya Maraj, December 8, 1982), better known by her stage name Nicki Minaj, is an American rapper, singer and songwriter. Born in Saint James, Trinidad and Tobago and raised in Jamaica, Queens, New York, Minaj earned public attention after releasing three mixtapes between 2007–2009. She has released three albums Pink Friday (2010), Pink Friday: Roman Reloaded (2012) and The Pink Print (2014) earning her millions.


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WASHINGTON — Using scientific scrappiness, the dynamic power of Earth`s gravity and an extra few hundred million dollars, NASA scientists have redesigned a landmark 1990s Jupiter probe to perform even more dazzling feats than first planned.
The Galileo probe of Jupiter and its moons, which had taken nearly a decade to prepare, was grounded by the Challenger explosion only four months before it was to be launched on a May, 1986, mission through the solar system. NASA engineers had decided its newly designed Centaur booster engine was unsafe, leaving the probe virtually powerless and scientists scrambling for a solution.


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Three South Florida teen drivers died this month after failing to follow laws designed to protect them and their two young passengers.
Each novice motorist was supposed to have had a licensed adult in the car with him. None did.
Parents and teens agree that many kids either don't know or don't follow the laws. For its part, law enforcement says mom and dad need to show more responsibility.
The relative of one recent victim agrees.
"Parents need to follow the laws," said Margaret Detwiler, the aunt of Anthony Almonte, 16.
Her nephew was in a car, driven by another 16-year-old, that plunged into a Coral Springs canal, killing Almonte, the driver and another boy.
"Otherwise, this is what happens," Detwiler said.
In Broward County, 46 teenage drivers died in accidents from 2004 to 2008. During the same period, 48 teens were killed in Palm Beach County crashes, authorities said.
In 1996, Florida adopted tougher restrictions limiting hours beginner motorists can drive and with whom. According to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, the state eventually recorded a 9 percent reduction in crashes for drivers between 16 and 17 years old.
But some still die.
The driver in the Coral Springs crash was Sean Maxey, an avid basketball player. The other motorists who died in crashes were Marquis Lumsdon, 17, of Pompano Beach, who wanted to join the Navy; and Matthew Kornya, 15, of Wellington, an accomplished swimmer.
According to Florida driving rules, each boy should have had a licensed driver at least 21 years old in the passenger seat.
"There are laws on the books designed to make driving safer, and it doesn't look like those laws are being followed," said Jim Leljedal, a spokesman with the Broward Sheriff's Office.


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You wouldn't know it to look at me now, but I used to be a member of a gym.
In fact, I have been a member of three gyms in the course of my life. One was very small and I think I went about twice, because I got fed up of spending more time queuing to use the equipment than I did actually using it.
The second gym, at the outset, had a big attraction for me. Not the gym itself, but the fact that it was the only place that I could watch P-Rock.tv, a cable television channel which played the sort of music I had not really paid much attention to before. I found so many favourite songs through that station and would spend excessive amounts of time on the exercise bikes (as they were the only pieces of equipment with their own television screens) just to try and find something new.
I was devastated when the channel went bust and had many attempts at finding it online (this was the days before YouTube). Going to the gym was never that good again.
This was the first song that really struck a chord with me. It was a bad day if I didn't get to see this video whilst I was exercising.


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CBSE 12th result 2018 Expected date of declaration : The CBSE (Central Board of the Secondary Education) +2 exam result 2018, the Delhi has conducted a class of the twelfth board exam on the month of March 2018. Around eleven lakhs of the higher secondary of students have appeared for the CBSE board examination. But now +2 class candidates is waiting for the CBSE +2 exam result 2018.
CBSE 12th result 2018 Expected date
The CBSE +2 exam result 2018 is going to declare on May 2018. The exact date and the time of the Twelfth results are about to updated soon. The expected date of the twelfth exam result is on May 20 for all of the regions and also all of the streams. The CBSE exam results are available on the result date only.
The expected date and time of the twelfth exam results 2018 is on May 20 at 9 A.M. If you have doubt about how to check the CBSE +2 exam results 2018, you just keep the following instructions. First, you have to open the CBSE +2 exam results website and then find out the CBSE 2018 exam result link.
Then you have to enter your registration number of your +2 exam CBSE board and also enter your date of birth and then finally have to click submit. These are the way to check the CBSE +2 result date 2018. The CBSE, Delhi have established in the year of 1962. In each year, this exam is conducted on March or April. Its result is published on May.
The NSC (national informatics Center) assist of publishing the twelfth CBSE exam result 2017 into the people without any of the error. All the region of CBSE exam result for +2 2018 will be publish on the same date. These results date officially announced in the online websites, News papers, TV in the few days.
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The Vitamin-E Phenomenon
Ever since I recollect hearing the term "Vitamin E" , all I can associate it with, are its benefits for hair, skin , nails etc. How it's oil gives you the most flawless skin and the shiniest, thickest locks and also how this is found as an ingredient within so many beauty products.
Hence, my curiosity of whether,the Vitamin E phenomenon is true or false. Which is, does this ingredient actually have anything to its own merit or is it just one of the thousand ingredients dumped in to beautifying concoctions to increase their market appeal ?
On a trip to the pharmacy I picked up "Vitamin-E Oil Capsules" from a brand called Nature's Bounty. A good Chunky sized capsule with Vitamin-E oil filled in each one,and to the test I put them.
Now after several weeks of using them, as oral supplements and for external application, the following uses are my personal favorites and have worked wonders for me.
Firstly, let me just put it out there that the oral consumption of these did nothing for me. I did not notice any significant difference with the texture or complexion of my skin. Neither did I see any improvement with the quality of my hair.
What worked wonders is the external application of this oil. So every night I nip open a capsule and apply the oil all over and under my eyelids, on my forehead, my neck and decolletage ( these are my driest patches of skin), and rub the remainder on the ends of my hair and elbows.
Doing this faithfully for a couple of weeks had left my skin and the ends of my hair so soft , healthy and nourished that it is unbelievable.
Vitamin E oil used right before bed, is by far better than any serum or night cream that I have ever tried and it soaks right in making the plumping effect instant, and not feeling greasy or oily at all.
Beauty Tip: If Vitamin-E oil in its original form is too heavy for your skin, you can always add few drops to your favorite lotion/serum and store the rest for later.
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The search for life in the universe remains one of the primary unsolved problems in science. This lecture addresses some of the main themes in the debate over the last few decades. Among the scientific themes are the results from planetary science, including the search for water on Mars and the nature of the oceans of Jovian satellites such as Europa; the advances in the search for extrasolar planets, of which more than 400 are now known even as NASA's Kepler spacecraft has just begun its search; the latest in origins of life research, including life in extreme environments such as hydrothermal vents; and advances in the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), including explanations for the Fermi Paradox and possible reasons for "The Great Silence." Among the philosophical themes are the epistemological status of the anthropic principle, the idea that the universe is fine-tuned for life. I conclude with cultural themes: based on cosmic evolution what might extraterrestrial cultures be like (biological or postbiological?), and what is the impact on humanity if we find such cultures – or if we do not? All these themes are part of the flourishing science of astrobiology.
Steven J. Dick served as the Chief Historian for NASA and Director of the NASA History Office from 2003-2009. He obtained his B.S. in astrophysics (1971), and M.A. and Ph.D. (1977) in history and philosophy of science from Indiana University. He worked as an astronomer and historian of science at the U.S. Naval Observatory in Washington, D.C. for 24 years, including three years on a mountaintop in New Zealand, before coming to NASA Headquarters in 2003. Among his books are Plurality of Worlds: The Origins of the Extraterrestrial Life Debate from Democritus to Kant (1982) (translated into French), The Biological Universe: The Twentieth Century Extraterrestrial Life Debate and the Limits of Science (Cambridge University Press, 1996), and Life on Other Worlds (Cambridge University Press, 1998), the latter translated into Chinese, Italian, Czech, Greek, and Polish. His most recent books are (with James Strick) The Living Universe: NASA and the Development of Astrobiology (2004), and a comprehensive history of the U. S. Naval Observatory, Sky and Ocean Joined: The U. S. Naval Observatory, 1830-2000 (2003). The latter received the Pendleton Prize of the Society for History in the Federal Government. He is also editor of Many Worlds: The New Universe, Extraterrestrial Life and the Theological Implications (2000), and (with Keith Cowing) Risk and Exploration: Earth, Sea and Stars (2005). His latest works are edited volumes (with Roger Launius) on Critical Issues in the History of Spaceflight (2006) and Societal Impact of Spaceflight (2007), as well as Remembering the Space Age (2008), Cosmos and Culture: Cultural Evolution in a Cosmic Context (2009) with Mark Lupisella, and NASA's forthcoming 50th anniversary publication, NASA's First 50 Years: Historical Perspectives (2010).
Mr. Dick is the recipient of the NASA Exceptional Service Medal, the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, the NASA Group Achievement Award for his role in NASA's multidisciplinary program in astrobiology, the NASA Group Achievement Award for the book America in Space, and the 2006 LeRoy E. Doggett Prize for Historical Astronomy of the American Astronomical Society. He has served as Chairman of the Historical Astronomy Division of the American Astronomical Society, as President of the History of Astronomy Commission of the International Astronomical Union, and as President of the Philosophical Society of Washington. He is a member of the International Astronomical Union, and a corresponding member of the International Academy of Astronautics. Minor planet 6544 Stevendick is named in his honor.
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An increasing number of employees want personalized, on-demand retirement advice that's offered through digital channels, especially in an age where more than half of workers (53%) don't receive any advice on their retirement investments, according to a new study from Betterment for Business.
Workers are looking to receive advice "as often as a question arises"" through channels like email and 1:1 sessions, according to "the State of Consumer Retirement Advice" report. They also want access to employer educational materials and digital resources, says the technology-led 401(k) provider.
Across generations, the report found that millennials expressed the most interest in frequent communications and tend to be the age group saving the most, says Thomas E. Clark Jr., an ERISA and business litigation attorney at the Boston-based Wagner Law Group.
Although employees aren't receiving advice, they still trust their financial advisers even in the wake of the public discussion of the Department of Labor fiduciary rule. About two in five employees (42%) could identify the term "fiduciary" and one in five employees thought the terms "fiduciary" and "financial adviser" are synonymous, according to the report.
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Of those workers who are aware of the Labor Department's rule, 84% have not taken action, such as asking their adviser if they are a fiduciary.
"The recent fiduciary ruling developments have spurred conversation around what credible advice should look like, and many advocates of the rule have hoped that investors would demand accountability from their financial professionals," says Betterment CEO Jon Stein. "All savers have the right to sound, reliable and personalized advice on their retirement investments, and as people demand and exercise that right, retirement outcomes can improve."
The online survey, conducted by Market Cube in 2017, polled 1,051 employees who contribute to a 401(k) plan at small and mid-sized companies.
The report also found that behavioral nudges, such as starting employees at 6% and escalating contributions by 1% each year, would effectively place employees on the path of least resistance to retirement readiness.
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